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Previously on HN (sadly no discussion though)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40828774

AFAIK no MAC addresses are involved. It assigns you a new IP address, internal to the network, a bit like a VPN.

yah it's good for logging into computers or accessing servers behind NAT. It's kinda an antidote to this world that's still hooked on ipv4 like it's 1992 or whatever.

some of us even still have Yggdrasil installation media

I have a book and cd. I tried using the cd image with Qemu but I couldn’t work out how to get the CD interface going. It requires some ancient device emulation (I want to say the creative soundblaster CD interface) but I’m not sure the limited ones it knows about are in qemu.

Try PCem It has ancient stuff. I got os/2 warp and win98 running fine (with voodoo graphics!) Having more trouble coming up with a plan to get bsd or Linux on it. So far I got Debian 9 installed and I'm going to install Gentoo from within on a new vhd.

I know 98 and warp aren't technically ancient, but I had gotten the Xerox star 8010 emulator running well yesterday and went to work on pcem.